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This was first printed in West Coast Line No.60 Winter Volume 42, 4: 24-35. Mancini mentions that he printed "Wheatabixy" for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text was produced from conversations overheard in an undisclosed area. As such, it is akin to Martin Wilner'a artist books that record text and images from passengers on the NY subway trains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text was produced from conversations overheard during a week in a surreal artificial tourist/commercial area on the edge of Vancouver's downtown area. As such, it is akin to Martin Wilner'a artist books that record text and images from passengers on the NY subway trains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a unique print of fluorescent pink ink on Arches cream paper. The rest of the edition consisted of 4 prints on Stonehenge warm white paper, 3 on Stonehenge grey and 3 on Stonehenge cream. The print was commissioned by the Sackners after having read Mancini's book "AEthel." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Linda Hutcheon (Amazon.com): While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry itself produced in the reviewing of poetry? Why has the reviewing of poetry remained largely invisible to self-reflexive critique? These are some of the many questions You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence dares to ask in its query to determine if poetry reviewers can claim to have the authority the imagine they have over their chosen subject. As a retort to the retrograde trend that is poetry reviewing in Canada, You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is the first book to detail the production and structure of an "aesthetic conscience"...